A Collector to Retrieve Micrometeorites from the South Pole Water Well

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Mar 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996lpi....27..747l&link_type=abstract

Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 747

Physics

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Collector: Design, Collector: Field Deployment, Collector: Testing, Micrometeorites, Rodriguez Well

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A Rodriguez well melted into the polar ice cap supplies drinking water at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. Micrometeorites incorporated into this ice are liberated as the well progressively melts its way downward. During December 1995, we deployed a collector that suctioned particulates from the bottom of the South Pole water well (SPWW); the material retrieved contained extraterrestrial particles. The collector, designed to meet stringent environmental, water-quality and access constraints, worked quite well despite encountering much more severe well-bottom topography than anticipated.

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